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callmekizzle t1_j8vkcfq wrote

Some old German guys warned of this like 250 years ago I think they even wrote some books about it. I think they said the rest of working class people should band together and seize the means of production? Or something like that? Maybe it was seize the means of induction? They old and dead now so Idk maybe I’ll look it up later.

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A_Harmless_Fly t1_j8vhmqx wrote

>For the military:
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>What the f'ck took you so long?! You're just now applying this in a serious way?

The AI that was supposed to find tanks that were camouflaged (not being told they were in the picture or not) Eventually got it right often enough with the training photos that they started field testing. It turned out in review, the flaw was the photos that had tanks in them were taken on a overcast day. They ended up with a is it cloudy or not bot.

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ZippyTheWonderSnail t1_j8vg7xb wrote

Pollsters are often wrong. Most recently, look at the 2016 election. Not only wrong, but so wrong as to be laughable.

Polls are often designed by partisan agencies to deliver the message they want all the time. Does anyone trust a FOX poll?

The way questions are phrased can help deliver the results the pollsters are paid to deliver. Do you back EVIL thing X, or are you on the side of righteous thing Y?

There are also audiences that are polled. If pundits are paid to direct people to the poll, the poll will be directed by those audiences. The HMS "Boaty McBoatface" can attest to this.

I know that the math is right, but the data isn't trustworthy.

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CoffeeFox t1_j8vffz7 wrote

> You’re completely moving the goalposts on the argument at hand.

You seem to be used to practicing arguments in a mirror, and forgot there isn't one present here.

They stayed on-point about messaging of elected officials and overall government policy and you danced around looking for an inroad to make deceptive generalizations regarding private entities that was fairly well off-topic right from the beginning.

It isn't "moving the goalposts" to repeatedly inform you that you are unsuccessfully trying different approaches of arguing with things that nobody even said, and it's ironic in the extreme to attempt to start up a game of Calvinball and then use that argument. "You're not allowed to do what I keep doing!" is... well, bless your heart.

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